Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Synopsis

In 2009, Columbia Pictures' and Sony Pictures Animation's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs will be the most delicious event since macaroni met cheese. Inspired by the beloved children's book, the film focuses on a town where food falls from the sky like rain.

Bill Hader, star of Saturday Night Live and Night of the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, will voice Flint Lockwood, a young inventor who dreams of creating something that will improve everyone's life. Anna Faris, who recently turned heads as the star of the comedy hit The House Bunny, takes on the role of Sam Sparks, a weathergirl covering the phenomenon who hides her intelligence behind a perky exterior. James Caan plays Tim Lockwood, Flint's technophobic father. Andy Samberg plays Brent, the town bully who has plagued Flint since childhood. Bruce Campbell plays Mayor Shelbourne, who figures out that Flint's invention can put the town, and more importantly himself, on the map and Mr. T plays the by-the-rules town cop Earl Devereaux.

It isn’t entirely clear why Sony Animation would choose to go this way with any pre-release ads, as barely anything new is shown, and it seems to serve only as a vehicle for and even more terrible food puns. Did I say terrible? Because “fruit cockatiel” makes me laugh. Exactly once,

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was an unexpected delight. The 2009 film was based on a popular children's book and brought to the big screen by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. And while the co-writers/directors won't be back for the Revenge of the Leftovers, the talented cast including Bill Hader, Anna Faris and Andy Samberg are all on-board as well as a great new voice in Kristen Schaal.

Unlike Journey 2, what will help sell this film is that the style will likely stay consistent and the characters will return (up-and-comer as he may be, Josh Hutcherson isn't a real household name yet. Expect that to change with The Hunger Games). With that in mind, Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers is actually a pretty cool title, as it both links back to the first film and gives us an idea of what the new movie will be about in a clever way.

The immediate forecast at Sony Pictures Animation calls for more meatballs as screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the duo behind the new comedy Horrible Bosses, have been tapped to pen a sequel to the 2009 animated hit. The original Cloudy pulled in $243 million worldwide by adapting Judi and Ron Barrett’s 1978 children’s novel into a high-energy, 3D animated adventure story.

Lord and Miller apparently had to run through a gauntlet of an approval process, giving a presentation not just to the Warner Bros. top executives, but the Lego bosses as well. They flew up to the Fremont, Calfiornia Lego convention Bricks by the Ba

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was a special movie which had the misfortune to be released in what was easily the best year for animation ever. But I’d call it every bit as good as the other great animated films of the year

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Last weekend things were looking rather grim for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and its $100 million budget. But this weekend audiences decided to give the food storm a second chance and a hefty box office boost.

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Read the interview for Miller and Lord's feelings about being the young kids who snuck on the Sony lot, making a caricature that wasn't ridiculous, and how they resisted the punny urge to have a character voiced by Mr. T say "I pity the food."

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is computer animated and will, therefore, make a ridiculous amount of money. But early buzz says that in addition to being another gimme cash cow, it may also be pretty funny

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs takes the rather short children’s book of the same name and attempts to turn it into a full-fledged animated movie. It seemed to work well-enough for Horton Hears a Who